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As I was painting the Killstripes on Shabad's MS 3, I decided to snap a few pictures and make a quick picture tutorial for anyone that might be getting ready to paint their own helmet. These are for the ESB scheme and are made using the 'old fashioned' method of masking tape strips and liquid mask (in this case, mustard). For those that use killstripe templates this thread may seem a bit...quaint, but for anyone just beginning, the method is simple and the results look really good. All in all this took about an hour and fifteen minutes from start to finish and leaves nice clean edges around each stripe without any underspray or bleedthrough.

That's it batninja... 1/4" space between each killstripe. The stripes themselves are 1" tall and 3/8" wide. And the space between the bottom of the killstripes and the top portion of the visor (red area) is 1/4".

I love mustard! I know I said I would get some pics up of my armor with the mustard, time hasn't allowed for that and my usb card reader is on the fritz anyways. The in progress pics say so much more than my finished pictures would have anyways. Great tutorial!